"As I Lay Dying" Quotes

My mother is a fish.

I can remember how when I was young I believed death to be a phenomenon of the body; now I know it to be merely a function of the mind.

I feel like a wet seed wild in the hot blind earth.

That's why I say I can never be sorry for him, he's got his own secret that nobody knows but him.

My mother is a fish. Vernon said she was a horse.

In a strange room you must empty yourself for sleep. And before you are emptied for sleep, what are you. And when you are emptied for sleep, what are you.

Sometimes I think it aint none of us pure crazy and aint none of us pure sane until the balance of us talks him that-a-way. It's like it aint so much what a fellow does, but it's the way the majority of folks is looking at him when he does it.